21 Jul
2015
21 Jul
'15
12:05 a.m.
The Seattle SIX exchange tried out this technique for their last software upgrade. Seemed like an interesting solution. https://ripe67.ripe.net/presentations/374-WH-IXPMaintReduce.pdf On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 01:11:34PM -0500, Andrew Hoyos wrote:
Shutting down the route server sessions would at least let BGP hold timers expire gracefully while traffic can still be forwarded for the duration of the hold timer.
Probably more important for those folks that are layer 2 extended into the IX and don't necessarily have any notion of physical link to the switch.
-- Andrew Hoyos hoyosa@gmail.com
-- Jeff Bartig University of Wisconsin jeffb@doit.wisc.edu (608) 262-8336